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Reading Series Margarettfeaturing Season Ticket Benefits Include: Esi Edugyan —— Seating in the Reserved Section for Each of the Seven Carmen Giménez Smith Readings INPRINT PAID US Postage Non-Profit Org. Non-Profit 2018–2019 Houston, Texas Houston, MARGARETT 1002 No. Permit Season Tickets 2018–2019 ROOT $215 INPRINT a value of more than $400 sold until supplies last BROWN Reading Series MARGARETTfeaturing Season ticket benefits include: Esi Edugyan — Seating in the reserved section for each of the seven Carmen Giménez Smith readings. Seats held until 7:25 pm, at which time all INPRINT unclaimed seats will be released to the general public. Tayari Jones — Signed copy of Barbara Kingsolver’s new novel Unsheltered available for pick-up at the reading. Those MAIN WEST 1520 ROOT Fady Joudah who purchase two season tickets per household will 77006 TX HOUSTON, receive a signed copy of Gary Shteyngart’s new novel Barbara Kingsolver Lake Success as the second book. Jonathan Lethem — Free parking for all seven readings. — Access to the first-served “Season Subscriber” Valeria Luiselli book-signing line. BROWN Tommy Orange — Two reserved section guest passes to be used during the 2018–2019 season. Reading Series Richard Powers — Recognition as a “Season Subscriber” in each reading Claudia Rankine program and on the Inprint website. INPRINT MARGARETT ROOT BROWN INPRINT MARGARETT ROOT Reading Series Gary Shteyngart 2018–2019 season ticket information enclosed To purchase season tickets online or for Meg Wolitzer more details on subscriber benefits, visit inprinthouston.org To pay by check, fill out the form on the back of this flap. This is a bookmark 2018–2019 The Inprint Margarett Root Brown Reading Series, now inits Series,now Reading Brown Root Margarett The Inprint and The City of Houston through the Houston Arts The Alliance. the Houston through Houston and The Cityof Inprint receives support from the Texas CommissionontheArts theTexas support from receives Inprint Foundation, Inc., and National Endowment for the Arts: Art Works. theArts: Art Works. for Endowment andNational Inc., Foundation, Series is presented in association with Brazos Bookstore andthe Bookstore withBrazos inassociation Series ispresented 38th season University of Houston Creative Writing Program. Writing Creative ofHouston University , is made possible by the support of The Brown thesupport ofThe Brown , ismadepossibleby Design CORE Design Studio INPRINT first and last names as you wish to be listed in the program MARGARETT 2018–2019 ROOT street address city zip BROWN email address Reading Series To purchase season tickets by mail, send email addresses for others in your party (important for weather or other emergency event changes) this form and a check payable to Inprint to: Inprint Number of Season Tickets you would like to purchase 1520 W. Main Houston, Texas 77006 Total Enclosed please note that each season ticket is $215 (a value of more than $400) Thank You! Please note that season ticket packets will be mailed to subscribers after Labor Day. Season tickets purchased We are deeply grateful for your after September 14 will be held at “will call” on the night of the first reading. Season tickets will be sold while support of the literary arts. the supply lasts; check the Inprint website for updates or contact the Inprint office at 713.521.2026. DEAR FRIENDS Welcome to the 38th season of the Inprint Margerett Root Brown Reading Series. As always, we are proud of and excited about the roster and hope you will be too. We’ve worked hard to provide a splendid array for you this year—a dozen writers of diverse backgrounds whose work is powerful, engaging, and dedicated to making us think. We live in a time when thinking is sometimes considered secondary to action, which downgrades the importance of the life of the mind and deliberate, compassionate behavior. As people who believe in the joy and potency of the written word, which can ignite awareness and inspire reflection, we must insist on the primacy of thinking. Our world is changing at an astonishing rate, and the cultural conversation is larger and richer than ever before. We look forward to taking part in it—with you, and with these brilliant writers, reading from compelling new work. Thank you for joining us on this continuing literary adventure. See you at the readings. CHEERS, Rich Levy, Executive Director ESI EDUGYAN & MEG WOLITZER Monday, September 24, 2018 CULLEN PERFORMANCE HALL, UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON INPRINT 2018–2019 BARBARA KINGSOLVER Monday, October 22, 2018 CULLEN PERFORMANCE HALL, UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON JONATHAN LETHEM & GARY SHTEYNGART MARGARETT Monday, November 12, 2018 CULLEN PERFORMANCE HALL, UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON CLAUDIA RANKINE Monday, January 14, 2019 ROOT STUDE CONCERT HALL, RICE UNIVERSITY VALERIA LUISELLI & TOMMY ORANGE Tuesday, February 26, 2019 BROWN STUDE CONCERT HALL, RICE UNIVERSITY Reading Series CARMEN GIMÉNEZ SMITH & FADY JOUDAH Monday, March 25, 2019 STUDE CONCERT HALL, RICE UNIVERSITY TAYARI JONES & RICHARD POWERS All readings take place at 7:30 pm Monday, April 22, 2019 Doors open at 6:45 pm STUDE CONCERT HALL, RICE UNIVERSITY TICKETS All readings begin at 7:30 pm, doors open at 6:45 pm. Each reading will be followed by an on-stage interview, and then a book signing BOOK SALES & at which audience members can meet the authors. For reminders and event updates, join our email list through the Inprint website SIGNINGS inprinthouston.org and follow us on: Season Tickets on Sale! Brazos Bookstore, the official bookseller for the Inprint Margarett Season tickets cost $215 (a value of more than $400) and will Root Brown Reading Series, will be on-site selling books at each be available while the supply lasts. Season tickets provide open reading and offers discounts on featured books by authors seating in the reserved section for each of the readings (seats appearing in the series. Receive a 10% discount on the featured held until 7:25 pm), plus free parking, a signed book, and other title by purchasing books online or buying a book at the event. benefits. Check the back flap for details. Use the coupon code inprint to receive the discount online. General Admission Tickets To learn more, visit the “Inprint Bookstore” on Brazos Bookstore’s Tickets for individual readings are sold in advance through the Inprint website: brazosbookstore.com/events/inprint website for $5 (plus a small service fee). General admission ticket holders have open seating, and seats are held until 7:25 pm. Check Please support independent bookstores. We recommend that all interior pages to see when online ticket sales begin for each reading. new series titles be purchased through Brazos Bookstore. Rush Tickets If a reading is not already sold out, general admission tickets for $5 will be available for purchase at the door starting at 6:45 pm. If a reading is sold out, all unclaimed seats will be released PARKING to the general public as “rush” tickets starting at 7:25 pm. When rush tickets are available, students and senior citizens (65+) Refer to the back page for maps and parking locations for Cullen will be given free rush tickets. Student groups are encouraged Performance Hall at University of Houston and Stude Concert to contact the Inprint office at least three weeks in advance of a Hall at Rice University. reading to request a free block of tickets. ESI EDUGYAN’S breakthrough second novel Half-Blood Blues won the Monday, Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, and was a finalist for the Man Booker Prize and an O Magazine Best Book of the Year. The Globe and September 24, 2018 Mail praises it as “unforgettable… brilliantly conceived, gorgeously executed. It’s a work that promises to lead black literature in a whole new direction.” A Canadian writer of Ghanaian descent, Edugyan comes to read from her third novel Washington Black, which follows an 11-year-old field slave from an early 19th century Barbados sugar plantation on a journey around the globe to become a free man. Attica Locke describes it as “nothing short of a masterpiece. Esi Edugyan has a rare talent for… giving her reader a new lens on the world…. This is an epic adventure and a heartfelt tale about love and morality and their many contradictions.” Edugyan’s other works include the novel The Second Life of Samuel Tyne, shortlisted for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and the ESI EDUGYAN & nonfiction book Dreaming of Elsewhere: Observations on Home. MEG WOLITZER TAMARA POPPITT NINA SUBIN “MEG WOLITZER is the novelist we need right now,” says The Washington 7:30 pm Post. Her bestselling novel The Female Persuasion was named one of the most anticipated books of 2018 by Time, New York magazine, Entertainment Weekly and elsewhere. The New York Times describes it as “uncannily timely, a prescient marriage of subject and moment that addresses a great question of the day: Cullen how feminism passes down, or not, from one generation to the next.” Her Perfomance Hall, other major novels include The Interestings, The Uncoupling, The Ten-Year Nap, The Position, and The Wife, which according to The New York Times Book Review University of Houston “deploys a calm, seamless humor.... Rage might be the signature emotion of the powerless, but in Wolitzer’s hands, rage is also very funny.” She is also the author of novels for children and young adults. In 2017 she served as guest editor of Best American Short Stories, and three films have been based on her General admission tickets $5 books: This Is My Life, directed by Nora Ephron; Surrender, Dorothy; and The Wife, on sale Tuesday, September 4, 2018 at inprinthouston.org with Glenn Close. Monday, October 22, 2018 GRIFFITHS ANNIE BARBARA KINGSOLVER is “a gifted magician of words,” BARBARA according to Time, and “a writer of rare ambition and unequivocal talent,” writes the Chicago Tribune.
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